The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Weekly Market Review.
WATERFOWL AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK.

CATTLE.-The receipts were sol head.
The demand was moderate, Northern
selling at to &c and fancy a. to DC per
ID. Mich cows sold all the way from 1913
to $50 per head.
SHEEP AND I.AMBs.-The receipts were
10,165 head The demand was good at % to
SIC for sheep and 81 to &c for lambs.
Sw1NE.-The receipts We're 7,115 head
The demand was fair, Northern dressed
selling at Ct to &c and Western live at 50
to SIC per pound.
PoULTRY.-The supply was five hun
dred pounds, prices ranging at to 10c per
pound.
HIDES, TALLow, ETc.-We quote hides at
to DC per 10, calf-skins at to Zoe per ID,
dairy skins at % to SOC each, lamb-sl1ins
at 81 to S1.35 each. shearlings at % to SOC
EACH Brighton tallow at % to Sc and coun-
try at II to &c per h.
BOSTON COUNTRY PRODUCE.
PoTAToEs.-Th best stock is in good call.
Early Rose sell at 80 to 6Oc, Beauty of He
brons at So to 63c, Burbank Seedlings at SO
to SOC and Prolifics at 50 to 5Sc per bushel
EGGs.-The demand is somewhat moder-
ate, but as arrivals have grown somewhat
lighter prices are better. We quote extra
Vermont and New York at 2S to 80 and
choice Western at Bic per dozen.
CHEEsE.-There has been steady, mod
crate demand, with prices about the same
as last quoted Extra Vermont sells at
13a to lac, good to choice at Il to 13c, COM
mon at to lie and extra sage at lac per
pound.
BUTTER.-The same dullness noted last
week has prevailed this week. Prices are rul-
ing a little lower. Extra Northern creamery
sells at ~ to 2Sc, extra Western cream
cry at % TO 2Sc, choice do at 90 to
23c, the finest Franklin county dairy
at 2S to oslo, good to choice do at "a to
26c, extra Vermont at % to &c, choice
Northern dairy at "a to pc and fair TO good
do at Is to PIC per pound.
THE WOOL MARKET
STRIKES, auction sales and the decisions
of the encouragement have destroyed the
zest of the woOl-trade, and, although there
has been a fair business, the market has
lost the buoyant tone which has character
lied it for the last four weeks. Ohio
NX sells at 30 to 36c, Ohio Y at 80
TO 331c, Michigan No. at 81 to 3Sc, Cali
fornia spring at % to 27c, Eastern Ore
gon at il to 19c, Maine supers at Al to
42c and extra Western supers at 30 to 35c
per pound.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
THE market has shown no change this
week. The season is unfavorable for trade,
and there is very little call for Eastern or
Northern lumber. The reports from the
North and East are the same as previously
noted. The logging is good, and a large
amount of logs will be cut. Rough hemlock
boards sell at $1,000 to $1,000 and planed do
at S1100 to $500; the best clear spruce
floor boards at $3.50 to $500, coarse at
$500 and refuse at $500 to $500; one-inch
box boards at $1,000 and seven-eights do at
S11,00; Eastern sawed cedar shingles at
$500 to 1925, clear do at $3.50 to $500, the
best shaved shingles at 1925, other grades
at S3,25 to S4.75 and No. spruce at S1.25 to
81 30: extra four-foot spruce clapboards at
a al m, nd
other grades at $40 to S2l.00 pine and spruce
laths at $500 10 S2124; the best spruce
nnderfoors at $1,000 and other grades at
$3.50 to $500.